skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not solely. Opus is a hybrid of the SILK codec, which is more for speech, and CELT, which is more aimed at music. It can seamlessly switch between the two methods and use them simultaneously: https://wiki.xiph.org/OpusFAQ#Why_not_keep_the_SILK_and_CELT...

The main goal was streaming (of both music and speech), and hence, low latency. Matching or bettering high-latency codecs (like Vorbis) on quality was just a bonus, and I believe somewhat of a surprise to the developers when listening test results came out.
That would seem to make it a very bad idea to do any double-checking before sending one out, since the more checks you do, the easier someone could argue that you didn't screw up.
^ -intact- fission nuclear power plant
^ should
^ might
^ dramatically greater engineering constraints than fission reactors
^ (if you exclude engineering and manufacturing and plant construction costs)

Sorry for the highlighter attack, but fusion still means building extraordinarily complex and expensive reactors that are going to have one hell of a carbon footprint and shed tons of radioactive waste in normal operation.

Let's roll it back to "potentially cleaner in some key ways".
I want to see the other way around: Search for flights with either "I want to earn X miles" or "miles are worth X cents to me" criteria added. Often the cheapest flights I find are worse deals because they don't have the frequent flyer miles "kickback".
This company was around for nearly three years before publicly launching. Seems a bit dubious.
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I interpret the question along the lines of "if they do a hundred launches, what's your probability distribution on the number of them that fail?"

If I have a normal coin and a coin which is double-sided (but I don't know which side), I'll give 50% for both of them coming up heads next time I toss. But if I toss them a hundred times each, my probability distributions for them look totally different.

I suspect this information is encoded in your priors, but I don't know offhand how to access it.
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Ok, so I'm sure you won't mind then if you send an e-mail to csr@myhealthprovider.com with your latest lab results and someone replies from their personal Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo? More importantly, why would you have e-mails from multiple people in the different inbox's? If you're allowed to check your e-mail at work then keep your family/friends using your personal account and your business contacts using your work one.

Your comment about security is extremely disturbing. You're right people can intercept it, however, if I send an e-mail to someone at a company and they forward it to their personal account, that's the minute I stop doing business with that company.

I get the appeal of combining them, but it's sloppy and too many people take the easy way out instead of being professional.

Read underwater's comment as well. He has some good points.
Ooh, that's clever.

And a little more greyhat than I've come to expect from patio11
I remember this (the trolling issue) was a slight problem when SiteChat[1] was submitted to HN. However, it does add to the sign-up friction, so I'm not sure if the trade-off is worth it or not.

[1]http://www.chrome-plugins.info/detail/affmlbhoebcjponkmlmoei...
This is beside the point, as soon as it's in your personal e-mail account not only has privacy been breached but Google's data mining it.
I signed up to check it out, and it definitely looks cool... The connection is lightning fast, but I'm wondering what other server options you'll have in the future. I'd love to have a few servers that are I/O beasts, and others full of 128GB or 256GB of RAM. Right now, we pay so much to Amazon each month, and we're playing with other options.
What plugin is that for your blog on the left hand side with the share icons?
I cannot seem to find any information on what kind of connectivity they have/peering. Also, do you get anything like iKVM or even a way to power cycle it?

It sounds like anything you run is going to be virtualized anyways or at least under a hypervisor, or else why the 7.5GB of RAM?
If no one sees your first launch and/or it fails -- just launch it again. Seriously -- the vast majority of people will never notice or know.

I dont get this BS about depending on a singular date as a defining 'launch'. Its a good internal goal to have, but not the ideal way you want to reach your market.
In 99% of cases you start out with an unoptimized version, find the areas that need optimizing, and improve the automated output by hand.

This strongly depends on the scenario.

If people are identifying and optimizing a hot spot, it tends to happen this way, yes.

But what I am thinking about is the common situation where a company produces a product in a low level language, and then later on a competitor produces a competing product in a high level language. The second entrant is optimized by an automated process, the first was done by hand, and can't easily be rewritten.

In these situations - and I have encountered several - the second implementation frequently winds up doing more and doing it faster than the first implementation.
They make their money from the car owners, so who are their customers?
That's not a hostile question at all! /s
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I'm getting the sense that it's used because "numbers != reality", so it's a subtle reminder that they're basing their call on sensor data, rather than actually having their head inside the engine.

I find that to be a sufficient explanation, though I'm just guessing.
No surprise, except for the whole 'illegal' bit.

15 USC 2302(c)

(c) No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of
such product on the consumer’s using, in connection with such product, any article or service
(other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is
identified by brand, trade or corporate name [... except that some exceptions can be granted if they are in the public interest.]
Not a rocket scientist, but using a car analogy, this sounds like the engine block vented gases and blew off the hood of the car, while the engine block itself received no damage.
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"Involuntary"? :)
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It depends, if they're starting a company then they should be setup separately from the start. You can't honestly tell me that you want Frank from the call center at your health provider getting a copy of your health records that you just sent in to his personal Gmail account?

If they're simply creating something to make some extra money then sure you could use the same account, but to be taken professionally you should keep them separate.
Good question.

You can answer that question for each prior. The probability of, say, 3 failures is the sum over all priors of the probability that that prior is true, times the probability that it would leave you with 3 failures.

I leave writing a program to calculate this as an exercise to the reader. I've put enough time in on this one already, I have paying work to get back to.
Sounds like 2 genius ways for Google to extract more revenue from their core service.

One, they'll start seeing increased sales from companies who can now spend money on Adwords they don't currently have in the bank. This revenue is almost 100% new since the capital was not available before. Although, it's possible some companies were just using other credit cards to finance their ad buys.

Two, Google would start collecting interest. This doesn't sounds cheap if you consider the risk of default and actually collecting on those default. But they could probably sell those loans to collection agencies and still make a profit.
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You're right, the second half of your post in effect puts a two-atom prior on "p", with zero everywhere else, and then goes on to use a sequence of such atoms, which would approximate a uniform prior. It's more standard to use smooth priors, because we don't have precise information, but you are right, I was not reading carefully.

You are still in error that there is not a way to describe the uncertainty in your estimate of the posterior probability of system failure. It has a posterior distribution, like everything else in a Bayesian analysis. You would compute it as I described -- Monte Carlo would be easiest.
That's rather a lot of assumptions packed into a seemingly logical conclusion.

I think it's perfectly possible for a text to be appreciated because of the way it executes a specific topic or genre, such that its quality is not something individual or different.

Secondly I can imagine taxonomies which are not based on shared textual features, but on chronological, geographical, and genre features.

Thirdly, I don't see why a shared feature would automatically be the "least interesting". What's interesting is rather subjective and context-dependent. If for example I had a particular interest in literature coming out of the first world war, this shared feature could be at the top of my list.
You can get vi keybinding plugins for IntelliJ and Eclipse (and netbeans). They make it a little better.
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> Second mistake: don’t launch when somebody famous is in ill health.

If you did that, you'd never launch.
"Nominal" is the favorite word of aerospace engineers. Both in the sense that they like to use it a lot, and in the sense that they very much like to hear that things are going according to the plan.
We'll be adding remote console support. You can shutdown and reboot your servers from the web.

Our network is currently connected to nLayer, Tiscali, PCCW/BTN, and peered with Equinix and a bunch of others. We'll be adding a number of additional providers as well. Our US West1 location is in downtown LA, where just about everyone has a presence.

Yes, your hardware is dedicated to you alone, but you launch virtualized instances on it. They run on OpenVZ, which has very minimal performance overhead compared with things like Xen.

Thanks for the questions.
So thinking about this some more: we're assuming engines have some "true failure rate" which we're trying to divine from evidence. 2% is currently the mean of your distribution on TFR, but the relevant question is what's the variance of your distribution?

Uniform prior, updated on the evidence that 1/36 engines have failed, I think this gives P(TFR = x) = x(1-x)^35 / (int x(1-x)^35 dx from 0 to 1). Apparently the integral is 1/1332, so P(TFR=x) = 1332·x·(1-x)^35. But that seems to have a mean of 5%, compared to your value of 2%, so I may have done something dumb?
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What do you think? Should I have accepted the investment offer?
My favorite spaceflight euphemism is still "rapid unplanned disassembly".
Yeah, we're going to announce a number of new hardware profiles in the coming weeks. We'll eventually have a number of "extreme" hardware profiles that are specialized for certain use cases.
A common argument is that easy access to guaranteed, government-backed student loans is responsible for rising tuition costs. In other words, a persons ability to attend college is no longer directly linked to their financial ability to pay for it (up front), so why wouldn't the schools just keep raising tuition? The only stopgap in this situation is how deep a debt hole the borrow is willing to dig, and we've seen again and again that without some sort of push back, lots of people are perfectly willing to keep digging.
The engine failed prior to MECO-1 (where the first two scheduled shutdowns occur) so there were still 8 lit engines. There's no capability to restart the engines that have been shut down.
For some businesses this is probably fine, but at the same time Google has a long history of being ok with a business one day and the next day deciding that business is no longer acceptable under Google's policies and shutting down accounts. How long til Google does the same thing to credit card accounts? Also, at what point is this business profitable enough that Google mandates this as a payment mechanism?
Similar to Spotify, it took us a long time to acquire legal rights to the artworks from all our gallery and institutional partners.
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No IRC? From https://uptano.com/aup:

UPTANO's services may only be used for lawful purposes. Users may not use UPTANO's Services to engage in, foster, or promote illegal, abusive, or irresponsible behavior, including:
...
Internet Relay Chat IRC servers, bots, clients, or anything related to IRC.
I thought it was standard to use a cash back credit card for this sort of thing.
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more accurate results, or more plausible-looking random results?
Another good one is "rocket undergoing rapid unplanned disassembly shortly after launch": http://i.imgur.com/lnuqG.jpg
Thanks! I didn't know about XPC being on iOS...

It's great news (especially in regards to Nitro-ed UIWebVIew), but still it's short of what intents are able to do. For example, I don't suppose it would be possible to "announce" to the system that I, for example, do "image editing" by getting a "png, jpg, pdf" and returning a "png, jpg, pdf". XPC would mostly be used in a single app for further sandboxing and increased security/stability.
Not sure I appreciate the implication that IRC is somehow unlawful.
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My father said this to me before 1979.
That's funny; I've never seen a 7.5 GB DIMM before. And I didn't know they still make 120 GB disks.
Hah! Me neither. Updated. The idea was only to prohibit public IRC uses, since they tend to attract the naughty people. Running your own private IRC stuff is fine. I've been on IRC for ~15 years myself.
Naming a project "A/Bingo" and hosting it on his own site is "grey hat"?
maybe it's just because i'm mostly an algorithms guy, but the bar for "O(log n)" systems programming seemed to be somewhat higher than that for datastructures and algorithms. and having "author of framework" be on the same level is another huge leap.
wow, this is super cool. Good work!
They're ever so slightly smaller than 8 GB DIMMS! And 120 GB is the usable disk space in the Standard Small hardware profile that's being offered. :-)
A non-profit technology company would be the ultimate fund raising vehicle.
Cross-referencing display ads seen with credit card purchases made could help 'close the loop' on ad campaigns for which conversions are currently harder to measure.

So perhaps this is a first toe-in-the-water offering, that could grow into a mass-market credit-card program.
Hey Guys,

Thanks for checking out our product. Been working hard on it to resolve the problem of object recognition and trying to produce something thats different to what's out there right now.

If you know anyone that want's to help or get involved - love to speak to them or if you want an invite just let me know and I'll send it right now.

Love your feedback on http://about.crowdsend.com too if you can! Open to anything.
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The mission wasn't a failure, but a major component failed in a way that is very concerning. There is a lot of work to be done before a sane human being will get in one of those, let alone approach the safety record of aircraft that Musk is so fond of alluding to.
Vero, where were you 3 months ago? I was searching for exactly this and ended up cobbling together a solution. Oi :)
With over 20 years of experience researching gap years, Bull has seen students work everywhere from outdoor-education centers to Scottish castles to elephant sanctuaries.

Let's be honest about what types of job opportunities there are for an 18-year-old with just a high school diploma, especially in this economy. Working with elephants in a Scottish castle sounds great, but I think the odds are a lot higher that you'll be cleaning the bathrooms at IHOP.

To be clear, it's not just the lack of education that's an issue, it's the lack of experience doing anything. 18-year-olds are a freaking liability to work with a lot of the time. They're often have unreliable schedules, unreliable transportation, and with no real work references, it's hard to know anything about their work ethic. Add on top of that that with these gap year kids, you know they're only going to be working for you for a year, so it's hard to justify investing too much in them.
I would assume 0.5GB is for the virtualization.

As for the drive space, maybe it's an SSD, though I'm being very hopeful. Or maybe it's a bigger disk with a bunch of images on it so you can quickly create a virtual machine without waiting for a network drive.
A little guy questioning a humongous pile of money empire (I doubt they'd feel it).
We currently do a lot of this stuff internally using our own system. But I must confess that we don't have great analytics on it...so it's tough to know if it's effective. Will check this out as an alternative.

Out of curiosity, how's this compare to using something like Intercom.io?
duh - every character is white. fail. one of the women is slightly Indian looking but still.
Lutusp was named an outstanding scientist by...

Actually, it seems to make perfect sense. [1]

_______

[1] He's a rocket scientist.... Who I have a lot of respect for, but this isn't rocket science (excuse the pun). The arguments here are out of place. There is a time and a place for applying (correctly) different frameworks of logic. This sub-thread was explaining the existence of <orthogonal> support, viz: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4626135.
Unless you're apple, don't count on a big launch full of pomp and circumstance, because no one cares. For startups, "launch" should be a continuous process, not a singular date.
Btw, Tim's from Australia and has been staying at my house in Los Altos for a month or so. Gotten to know him well, great guy and fantastic front-end hacker.

We've been working together putting some finishing touches on CrowdSend. I think it's going to be a winner.
These are 10K RPM RAID1 hard disks, but we will be rolling out SSD options in the very near future.
tl;dr: Don't base your entire company's success on a posting to a tiny social bookmarking website.
While everyone is involved, the site serves web developers. So the best practice for developing for the platform at large is the target.
http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Policy/Pillars outlines a bit more of the thinking behind the priorities.

In the case of <video>, the site will recommend encoding to both Theora and H.264, and serving both sources, yes. It's the practical (although not necessarily convenient) answer.
Ask HN: Meet up in Portland, Seattle, or Bellevue?
I'll be in Portland, Oregon this weekend from Thursday night to Sunday night. I've started a web design shop here in the Seattle area. I'd love to meet any entrepreneurs in Portland this weekend. Or at any time in Seattle and Bellevue.

I would be very interested in knowing more about your company's history and the challenges you have faced :).

If you want to email me: kevin.stubbs@therubyhouse.com

Thanks,
Kevin
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On the video front, WebM is supported by most of the major browsers excepting IE and Safari, both of which support WebM via extensions or MP4/H.264. WebM might make its way into IE/Safari once Microsoft and Apple decide that there's no chance of being ambushed by patents [0].

[0]: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/02/02/html5-and-web-...
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My dedicated hardware was given to me instantly, and it took less than a minute to ssh into my machine. I'll take it!
2% is the estimate for the rate of rocket failure, not the estimate of the rate of engine failure.
I tried this independently, and have the same result (2.0%).

https://gist.github.com/3855660

And the probability of any rocket engine failing, per launch, is 1 in 3!
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/993/
Interesting - thanks for sending.

Yeah - we'll need to figure this out. When we posted to r/chrome last week, this was the same comment we got. Then again, we haven't heard this feedback from the, I guess, "non-technical" folks that's been using it... but we will think about this some more for sure.

Thanks!
As someone from the scientific side, I would say it's often at least somewhat accurate, and scientists really do frequently take embarrassingly reductive approaches when trying to dip their toes into digital-humanities work, without having read enough of the relevant background material. It's cliche as a criticism, sure. So is the accusation that a lot of humanities/theory work is too "fuzzy". But both criticisms are perceived as cliche precisely because the errors they point out are so common.
Yes; the only reason for using Array.map() here is conciseness and similarity to the original code.
tl;dr: 30% of our customers are irrelevant to us.
The question _does_ make sense - you have some probability distribution that represents your belief, you observe data and form an updated probability distribution (your posterior) that represents your new belief incorporating the observed data, and the question asked (in a roundabout way) what the variance of the posterior distribution was.
Looking at reporting / analytics for sites - aggregated, of course.
In what sense is this article using the word "theory"? In the scientific sense of "as true as things come" (e.g. theory of gravity, theory of relativity), or in the pop scientific sense of "plausible conjecture"?

Seems like the latter. Little wonder we hear people saying evolution is "just a theory" when science reporting can't even use decent terminology.
This is a strange offering.

If you wanted to pay for AdWords on credit, why wouldn't you be doing so already? I assume most businesses are already using a credit or charge card. And getting benefits like cash back or points for doing so.

If you're already doing that, why would you want to switch to a Google card? They offer no apparent benefits aside from a possible higher credit limit. If someone can't get a decent line of credit, would they really spend so much more on AdWords if given a Google card that they'll be more profitable?

If a business can't get credit at all, why would the banks Google partners with extend them some?
A friend of mine built this, http://kinect.childnodes.com though the project has been very silent lately.
it's amazing to me how much marketing and customer acquisition has entered into the "startup" convo over the past few years.

the amazing part is that for so long it was just about building some people want, fast, and making it better. that was the basic cycle.

now it's building something people want while simultaneously getting the attention of the people that might want what you're building.
Mikkel - thanks again for the feedback!

I've jotted down your other comments during the chat as well, but just wanted to say thanks here again :)

Definitely agree on the graveyard issue, will work on it.
Lately I've been writing a lot of ruby on rails
I've been trying to get a job offer for a company in SV for the past 5 months and no luck so far. Do you have any tips for getting a job in SV when you don't already live there (but are willing to relocate)? I've done a dozen or so interviews, and even been flown out a few times, but have never been offered a position. For reference, I have 5 years experience doing python, and I even run my own "startup" as a solopreneur (quotation marks because I'm not doing this project for the money and cost == profit)
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